from YouTube, a 4.5 min compilation of every Harryhausen critter and contraption, in chronological order.
[Caution: "soundtrack" of sorts. You'll probably want to lower your sound or turn it completely off.]
More Ray Harryhausen:
Help write the OED.
Balderdash & Piffle – help rewrite the OED
The OED seeks to find the earliest verifiable usage of every single word in the English language – currently 600,000 in the OED and counting – and of every separate meaning of every word. Quite a task! The forty words on the appeal list all have a date next to them – corresponding to the earliest evidence the dictionary currently has for that word of phrase. Can you trump that?
e.g. flip flop
WANTED: Verifiable evidence before 1970.
Ever hear the joke about the Frenchman in sandals? Phillipe Floppe? Never mind. The onomatopoeic word flip-flop referred to a somersault, an electronic circuit, and a manner of moving noisily, before it came to mean a rubber sandal beloved of antipodeans, although of course they call them jandals or (how wrong can you get?) thongs… Flip-flop is the word we are interested in here, and the OED wants your evidence of the word from before 1970.
The OED has a list of words that they’re looking to find earliest usage. If you’re able to provide CONCRETE dates and usage with verifiable references for the words they’re looking for, drop them a line.
I found a couple of earlier dates using Googja and handy references and sent them on this afternoon. They may already have received those ante-datings, but maybe not and the more the merrier.
Join in.
Seranella wrote a New Year’s op-ed for the LA Times to clue us in on how she’s doing since July 2005, when she had two liver transplants, followed by a month-long coma.
I HAVE DEDICATED every shooting star, broken wishbone and blown-out birthday candle to the same thing during the last year: I want my health back.
We want the same for you too, Barbara.
(Seranella’s ninth Munch Mancini murder mystery, DEADMAN’S SWITCH, is due out in April from St. Martins/Minotaur.)
[Thanks for the heads-up on the article, Miss Snark.]
A random Stumbleupon click took me here, where I found a collection of photographs lifted from Candida Höfer‘s book LIBRARIES.
Beautiful.
An essay by Umberto Eco on libraries serves as an introduction to the book. Except for the introduction, there are no accompanying essays, just 137 full-page photographs, each faced with a blank page.
My favorite of the photographs Jaime Morrison posted is that of Trinity College Library, Dublin. [link to artnet’s scan added: buy a n/100 print for $1850]
Oh. MY.
Yours?
(Or are libraries and books not something you lust after?)
Update:Candida Höfer’s LIBRARIES may well be the second book I buy in 2007. I need to check with abebooks.com and Amazon and others.
I was going to say it would be my first book purchase of the year. I almost forgot I bought something today when we were at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. A post on all that follows, in good time.
I’d never seen this video before.
His nibs says, oh, that one. That was making the rounds a couple years back. Well, it’s news to me, and I like it.
Thanks, Halsted.
per her latest post (which I wholeheartedly agree with, which the younger younger guys can attest to, being crappy spellers in their youths) I had to check back to an earlier post to make sure I spelt her name right. Did. Phew.
I don’t see many films, but this seems a worthwhile exercise.
It is estimated that 50 percent of the films produced before 1950, and 80 to 90 percent made before 1920, have disappeared forever. The Library of Congress is working to stanch those losses by recognizing, and working with many organizations to preserve, films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today [26Dec2006] added 25 motion pictures to the National Film Registry (see attached list) to be preserved for all time, bringing the total number of films on the registry to 450.
Looked up struldbrug with my handy-dandy 1-Click Answers and got some entertaining sponsored links:
[struldbrug — for those who don’t know and really don’t want to check right now — is “The appellation given to the immortals in Gulliver’s Travels who were incapable of dying but continued to exist in a state of miserable decrepitude, regarded as legally dead, and receiving a small pittance from the state — hence in allusive uses.” according to 1-Click Answers, which borrowed the definition from Michael A. Fischer’s Worthless Word For The Day]
The links:
Cirugia Plastica
Cirugía Plástica en Argentina a precios bajos. Excelencia médica.
www.plenitas.com
Low price plastic surgery. Yay!
Fotos De Descuidos
Buy Fotos De Descuidos on eBay Fotos De Descuidos for sale!
www.ebay.com
Photos of negligences? ?
Dr Jorge Vergara Rodgers
Tecnologia Dental Avanzada Odontología Láser Sin Dolor
www.odontosalud.com
I like dentists who are sin dolor.
8¢ Photos, No Minimum
Wholesale Professional Printing Lab Studio, Wedding, Poster, Ad Prints
www.bestcolorphoto.com
pictures. OK.
Tienda de Diego Maradona
Tenemos jerseys, camisetas y otros productos de Diego Maradona.
www.TodoFut.com
I’m not quite sure why a struldbrug might be interested in a Diego Maradona jersey. I’d be more interested in piccies of certain hunky Argentine polo players.
Why are so many of the links en español?
Funny fog we had today down our neck of the City.
The folks at SFist had a blog post and picture of a sunny day at Balboa and 42nd Ave and mused about why they were hearing fog horns blowing when they could see no fog.
At the same general time where we are, which is seldom foggy, we had something like this:
We watched (and I chronicled) the fog dissipate leaving us a beautiful day:
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A glimpse into my future, or so I’d like to believe.
Click on either picture for the sequence of photos.
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